gobshite quarterly #31/32 : your rosetta stone for the new world order

Gobshite Quarterly Summer/Fall 2018, #31/32 features: Every Edge a Centre is an ongoing series of mythopoetic reasoned rants and essays: Nebraska novelist & O. Henry nominee Poe Ballantine looks back at a 1960s relationship with a legend in ?Every Edge A Centre: Another zucchini bar, Ken?? (in Eng./Sp./Croat.); Adelaide-based poet & essayist Judith Steele writes about escaping the age of Trump, even in the Outback, in ?Every Edge A Centre: Travelogue Monologue, Flinders Ranges, So. Oz.? (in Eng./Sp./Croatian); Germ. film scholar Janina Bocksch & Barcelona-based Oz essayist & cineaste Adrian Martin write about Charles Laughton?s classic noir & chess in ?Night of the Hunter: Black is to Move? (in Eng./Span./Croatian). We have two comics: Award winning Little Beirut, Oregon poet & artist Leanne Grabel graces us w/a life of Dorothy Parker for children of all ages, ?A Sad Story About a Big Brain: Illustr.? (in Eng./Span./Icelandic/Croatian). Rotterdam-based illustrator Tânia Cardoso collaborated w/ writer Joana Vardona for the comic book ?Garandinha??excerpted (in Eng./Portuguese).  & we have an Indonesian Dragon fr. Japanese artist Midori Oki, & Croatian illustrator Dusan Gai has a very pictoral ?Diary? (in Croat./English). Bestselling Swiss novelist Christoph Keller, who divides his time betw. St. Galen & N.Y.C., offers us 5 Jazz flash fictions inspired by jazz classics & the lives of the musicians who wrote them (?Solo Flight?/?Blood Count?/?New Rhumba?/?My Friend Mindy?/?Sound Seekers?).  Fr. Bowling Green Ohio, Michael Lohr gives us orig. bad boy & eternal rock-?n?-roller Edgar Allen in ?The Ghost of Poe? (in Eng./Icelandic/Finnish/Sp.). Little Beirut writer Davis Slater observes a very very very angry carney in ?9 Kinds of Sucker? (Eng./Span./Croat./Japanese).  & we?ve got poets fr. all over: Greek poet & editor  Dinos Siotis ponders paradoxes of ?Faith? (in Greek/Eng./Lithuan./Span./Japanese). Croat. editor & poet Ivan Herceg visits ?Limbo? & thinks ?About Impossible Faces? (in Croat./Eng./Span./Lithuanian).  Award winning Croatian poet Lana Derka comes to a ?Conclusion? & makes an appointment with ?Doctor January? & enters a ?Covenant with Dust?. Also fr. St. Galen, Clemens Umbricht visits ?The Room of False Things? & hangs ?Untitled? on a wall & gets lost in ?Rain-washed Amsterdam? & then takes ?A Stroll in July? (in Germ./Eng./Croat./Spanish). Award winning Slovenian poet & E.R. doctor Veronica Dintinjana goes to midnight mass to visit the ?Cathedral Lions? & then loiters ?Outside the City Gates&rdquo...